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Tea Parties Forge Alliances in Bid to Advance Agendas

By

Neil King Jr.

Updated Oct. 6, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

RICHMOND, Va.—The tea-party movement is turning more professional.

Around the country, tea-party groups are building increasingly sophisticated political organizations and overcoming early bickering to push legislative platforms, elect their own delegates, shake up statehouses and even form alliances with the Republican Party establishment they profess to dislike.

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